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The below recommendations are a sampling from my LinkedIn profile.

"Not many people combine sound strategic thinking with deep technical knowhow like Darwin. Darwin led one of my DevOps teams for the past year, competently juggling a complex mix of team management, tooling development, and keeping our internal customers happy. I've rarely met people like Darwin who are truly experts in the "how?", but can see past into the "why?" Any team would flourish under Darwin's leadership, but be prepared for your stellar short-term execution to be accompanied by longterm thinking."
​ - ​Nov 2018

David Lowry
Chief Technology Officer
ChartSpan Medical Technologies
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Relationship: Direct Manager

"In my COO role Darwin works directly with me to provide research and key input on business initiatives such as implementing lean startup principles and structuring our dynamic equity program.  I am also on the team that reviews Darwin's technical strategy recommendations and designs.    Darwin has a rare ability to contribute to an organisation at multiple levels, from performing detailed  technical work (at an astonishing rate, btw) to providing valuable input at a strategic business level.  He is incredibly smart, but crucially, also has the emotional intelligence to  back it up.  I find him a real pleasure to work with."
​ - Apr 2015

Chris Rimmer
Co-founder and COO
Application Readiness
Relationship: Direct Manager

"Darwin is one of those co-workers you meet and instantly you know that he has a great talent with an analytical approach.  I have had the pleasure to work side by side with him in all different areas. Whether it's Windows processes, cloud engineering or automation his in-depth analysis and thorough research is amazing. Not only does he get to the root of your question, he also offers other ideas and solutions while backing it up with sources and links to articles for a deeper read."
​ - Oct 2017

David Dixon
IT Manager / Cloud Architect
WorkWave
Relationship: Colleague, Same Company

"During my time at Infor, I worked with Darwin on building out a scalable, highly available AWS implementation of Gitlab. It provided internal SaaS developers with company-wide source control management as a service for use in their DevOps toolchains. The project had its challenges early on, but once Darwin took over the project, it really took off and he was able to bring the product to fully generally available (GA) status. Darwin is great a Architect and can find solutions to problems as they arise. He is also flexible,  which is important when Architecting solutions in an constantly changing cloud environment where technologies keep evolving and getting better. (AWS)"
​ - ​Jan 2019

Fidel Aviles
Systems Architect
Allscripts
Relationship: Colleague, Same Company

"I was fortunate to have Darwin on my extended team during my time at Infor.  Though we generally did not work on the same projects, Darwin was always happy to help troubleshoot technical issues with technologies like Active Directory, PowerShell, and GitLab. The projects Darwin led at Infor (including our private Gitlab) were used throughout the Development Organization, and he ensured that they were as easy-to-use as possible and well-documented. The announcements he published internally for his projects were incredibly detailed and often led to in-depth discussions where we were able to make important decisions."
​ - ​March 2019


Daniel Dersch
Cloud Systems Engineer
Elighten Consulting
Relationship: Colleague, Same Company

"I had the pleasure of working with Darwin on a team responsible for driving the DevOps initiatives to a rapidly growing company.  Meeting immediate and increasing demands, Darwin was indispensable to the successful delivery of our teams solutions.    A proponent of the lean approach (as evident in his work), Darwin's solutions hit the mark on immediate value, but were always robust enough to support future expansion.  Darwin has this great ability to fuse various stakeholder needs into flexible solutions.  He presents them with engaging demonstrations, all of which are backed by workable demonstrations.  His implementations were always clean and fully documented.  Darwin also instituted a team mentality for cost savings and reducing attack profiles with everything we produced.    When we would code collaborate and whiteboard together, I always learned something new.  Several times he freely organized lunch and learns where he would share his mastery of Powershell and automation.  Needless to say, Darwin is the complete package, well respected by his peers and an asset to any organization if your are lucky enough to get him."
​ - Oct 2018

Rob Pierro
QA Manager
Workwave
Relationship: Direct Manager

"Darwin worked as a member of my automation engineering team during the past three years developing software packages to deploy custom and commercial apps to our company's 18,000 clients and servers.  Above all, I was impressed with Darwin's commitment to deliver the highest quality software deployments to internal clients, his expertise in troubleshooting root causes of complex issues, and his continuous passion to discover, create, and leverage new technology to share with his colleagues and improve their ability to deploy software faster and in a more supportable way.  Darwin built strong relationships with internal clients due to his ability to anticipate their needs and his extremely upbeat demeanor.  Darwin would be a true asset for any IT positions requiring a high level knowledge of infrastructure automation, including software deployment, configuration management, compatibility troubleshooting, and IT process automation."
​ - Jun 2015

Jeffrey Tunkel
Manager, IT Process Automation
Air Products
Relationship: Manager

"We scored big when Darwin accepted our offer to work on our environment automation project. He was able to take what little requirements we had given him and ended up delivering a first class solution using Agile practices. Darwin is extremely knowledgeable in various automation techniques within a Windows environment and was able to easily work around some of the hurdles we had been facing. I would definitely recommend Darwin for any company interested in automating complex manual tasks."
​ - Dec 2015

Ben Mallo
VP, Infrastructure Services
AssetMark
Relationship: Manager

"I had the pleasure to work with Darwin for a couple of years on a team that created and supported a variety of software products and services to streamline the DevOps processes for the entire organization.   I was impressed with Darwin's ability to juggle the management of multiple different initiatives simultaneously.  He is able to lead/mentor his team(s) while, at the same time, rolling up his sleeves and making significant development contributions himself.  He is truly customer focused when managing the backlogs and roadmaps.  He embraces the Agile philosophy and can deliver quick wins and small impactful features to hungry customers while still managing the road map with a longer term vision of what he wants a service to become.  Darwin's enthusiasm is contagious.  He was always excited to demonstrate what his team had accomplished.  You could rely on getting very thoughtful  feedback from him on any reviews or demonstrations he participated in.  I often found myself coming away from my discussions with him full of new ideas/possibilities that he would share with me from his vast experience.  I miss being able to work with Darwin on a daily basis and know he would be an asset to any team."
​ - ​March 2019


Jared Donboch
Senior Software Developer
ChartSpan Medical Technologies
Relationship: Colleague, Same Company